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Anna Weber

Team: Purpose Foundation

Role: Project Manager

For Anna, companies are an integral part of a flourishing society and planet – when designed with intention and care. Having moved from classic management studies to a transdisciplinary master’s in transition, innovation and sustainability, her focus has been the deep design of business to shape a company’s impact. In her work, she explored this deep design from multiple angles: at the World Fair Trade Organization, the Doughnut Economic Action Lab, and now at Purpose.

Steward ownership excites her because it gives a structural and deep-rooted answer to how businesses can remain independent and purpose-oriented in the long run. At the Purpose Foundation, she works to make knowledge on steward ownership accessible, exciting and tangible.

Welcome to Purpose

 

Since coining the term steward-ownership in 2015, PURPOSE® exists to make steward-ownership known and accessible to everyone. Working together in the PURPOSE® Group under one brand, with distinct focus areas and in separate, independent entities, we are united by one vision: to unlock the potential steward-ownership holds for people, planet, and society.

Together for steward ownership

We all work to make steward ownership known and accessible to everyone. While the non-profit Purpose Foundation drives advocacy, research, and education, Purpose Consulting and the investing entities (Purpose Ventures and Purpose Evergreen Capital) work directly with companies, founders, and investors. Drawing on practice and research from across the field, including from the independently operated PURPOSE® entities, the Foundation produces tools, research and educational materials and publishes them as open content, freely available to everyone.

Our work is made possible thanks to pioneering companies, investors, and the many experts and changemakers working with and transitioning to steward ownership already today. In addition, our regional partners under the Purpose brand (Purpose Latam, Purpose US) and field builders (e.g., Foundation for Steward Ownership in Germany or We Are Stewards in the Netherlands) collaborate with us to advance steward ownership worldwide.

A shared mission

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    As a non profit, the Purpose Foundation pursues its mission autonomously and with its own resources. We work to make steward ownership globally known and accessible through advocacy, research and education. We cooperate with other organisations in the field, including the independently operated PURPOSE® companies. We happily and openly share our experience and learnings to help make steward ownership known and accessible to everyone.

  • Purpose Consulting globally accompanies entrepreneurs and founders toward custom-tailored ownership and governance structures for their companies – from founding to succession, aligned financing and beyond.

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    Purpose Ventures helps the next generation of founders build profitable, steward-owned businesses with purpose-aligned capital – bringing their values, mission, and ownership into harmony while mobilizing more investment for steward-owned companies

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    Purpose Evergreen Capital offers patient, value-aligned capital to small and medium-sized enterprises helping businesses stay independent and true to their values with steward ownership.

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    The Purpose Veto Share enables companies to legally safeguard the principles of steward ownership (currently only available in Germany and Switzerland). The veto share solution was developed to simplify the legal implementation of steward ownership for companies today.

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    In addition, there are regional affiliated Purpose Partners who operate under the Purpose brand (Purpose Latam, Purpose US), as well as regional changemakers with whom we closely collaborate to advance steward ownership.

Thank you!

 

 

None of this would be possible without the forerunners – the steward-owned companies, entrepreneurs and investors who, in the face of partly uncharted territories and systemic adversities, have the courage to forge ahead and implement steward ownership – as well as the many brilliant lawyers, tax consultants, employees in steward-owned businesses, researchers, legislators, thought leaders, changemakers and regional partners contributing to this journey. Thank you!

The minds behind the Purpose Group

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Become part of our team!

We work for an economy that serves people, society and the planet!

Steward ownership is at the heart of our activities. Do you share our passion for steward ownership and would like to become part of PURPOSE®?

Then join us in spreading the impact of steward ownership and making it available worldwide.

 

We currently have no vacancies.